Fabienne Josaphat
@fabyjosaphat.bsky.social
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Author, PEN Bellwether Prize 2023 Fiction, poetry, art Kingdom of No Tomorrow, Algonquin 2024
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So Napoleon Bonaparte gets movies made after him but where are the movies about the Black soldier who challenged him and paid the price? I wrote about Alexandre Dumas and his drive to rewrite his father into history.
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I had so much fun teaching this creative writing workshop on the narrative power of silence that I had to write this craft essay about it. Sharing here:
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Say Less: A Craft Essay on Subtext
I tought a workshop on the narrative power of the unsaid - for my paid subscribers: craft lesson and prompts!
https://open.substack.com/pub/fabiennejosaphat/p/say-less-a-craft-essay-on-subtext?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1d4p8b
3 months ago
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I wrote a new entry in my Substack this week! Consider subscribing for a full breakdown of how casting your characters might help you finish that novel!
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If Your Characters Were Actors
An unapologetic writing trick that brings your characters to life
https://fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/if-your-characters-were-actors
4 months ago
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I keep forgetting this platform, hoping to be better at sharing on here this new year. Check out my Substack recap/looking ahead mashup.
6 months ago
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I wrote an essay on loss that is really a eulogy of a man who impacted me greatly. The essay is about how his loss was my first experience with grief as a child. Where would you submit such a piece?
8 months ago
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Sharing my last Substack once more. Subscribe! I'd love to grow a little community of readers and fellow writers/thinkers.
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In the Mood for Love (and Unafraid)
Writing about love is serious business and serious literature - writing prompts included for my paid subscribers
https://open.substack.com/pub/fabiennejosaphat/p/in-the-mood-for-love-and-unafraid?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1d4p8b
8 months ago
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Creative Writing at NEIU
9 months ago
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WATCH: Why poetry scares authoritarians
Poet Kevin Young on his new volume “Night Watch,” writing the blues, and why poetry is the best way to time travel
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Shannon Hale
9 months ago
When you read a book and love it and then take the time to post a review online, it means SO MUCH to the writers. Thank you.
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The Charlotte Gusay Literary Agency
9 months ago
Dancing in the Baron's Shadow by
@fabyjosaphat.bsky.social
Nicolas, a bourgeois socialist is sent to the notorious Fort Dimanche prison by dictator Papa Doc's militia, and his brother Raymond must try to save him. 💙📚 [
#booksky
#historicalfiction
#bookrecommendations
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Gareth L. Powell
11 months ago
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
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A man on a horse walks into the sea and disappear. It's a story about erasure and how Haitian art resists it. Read the full story here:
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11 months ago
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Writing ancestors in fiction is not just woo woo stuff. I wrote about that in my new essay:
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Is the Ancestor in the room right now?
Ancestors, dreamwork, and writing from the ancestral well - craft essay
https://fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/is-the-ancestor-in-the-room-right
12 months ago
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My week teaching Fiction as Resistance went just as expected: magical. I wrote about here:
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The Magic Was Already in the Room
On mentoring writers of color and the radical joy of storytelling
https://fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/the-magic-was-already-in-the-room
12 months ago
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Guitar from Sinners + Jamea Richmond-Edwards dragon rider = art as ancestral tech. I wrote about this in my Substack! Let me know your thoughts.
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They Put the Ancestors In the Group Chat
The Incredible Time-Bending Magic of Sinners & Jamea Richmond-Edwards' Art - an essay
https://fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/they-put-the-ancestors-in-the-group
12 months ago
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Black Lawrence Press
12 months ago
Please join us in congratulating
@agasendorf.bsky.social
! Florida Humanities has chosen "Dressing The Saints" as its 2025 "Great Reads from Great Places" selection. "Dressing The Saints" will be featured at the National Book Festival on September 6th in Washington D.C.
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12 months ago
Thank you, Fabienne, for addressing an important topic in such a beautiful way. We're so grateful to have given it a home. 💜
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What They Will Say – Bellevue Literary Review
https://blreview.org/fiction/what-they-will-say/
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I wrote this short story for my mother, and all the women navigating loneliness. Thanks
@blreview.bsky.social
for giving it a home ✨️. Read it here in their Body Politic issue ⬇️
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12 months ago
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It's really the little things, like decluttering my desk in the morning and writing morning pages instead of end of day journaling, that make me feel a bit more motivated. Reading list for the class I teach next week: Fiction as Resistance.
12 months ago
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So Napoleon Bonaparte gets movies made after him but where are the movies about the Black soldier who challenged him and paid the price? I wrote about Alexandre Dumas and his drive to rewrite his father into history.
fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
about 1 year ago
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I have created every single excuse to avoid work today. I just sat down and then got up to go moisturize my hands.
about 1 year ago
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I had fun writing this for my Substack newsletter, and it comes with a poem in it. Subscribe for more 😊
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about 1 year ago
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Two poems written in three past two days. I like this streak. 🦋
about 1 year ago
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Looking for Japanese cafés in Miami that serve coffee, matcha, pastries etc...
about 1 year ago
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My handsome old man is at the groomer today and I'm having separation anxiety. I miss him. I realize how much I love having him by my side every day 💕
about 1 year ago
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Met up with this book club yesterday to chat about
##kingdomofnotomorrow
and we had a blast.
about 1 year ago
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Lovely poetry reading with some incredible poets friends 🧡
about 1 year ago
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Spanish moth baby sighted today 🥰
about 1 year ago
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I actually wrote today. A tiny flash piece. This is a gift.
about 1 year ago
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I'm definitely the person watching back to back true crime shows for the soothing effect. No bueno.
about 1 year ago
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Craig Pittman
about 1 year ago
O MIAMI! Come to
@booksandbooks.bsky.social
Friday night to hear me yak about my new book, WELCOME TO
#FLORIDA
! There's no dress code, so you don't have to wear your dress-up la chanclas. But your emotional support iguana MUST be on a leash.
www.booksandbooks.com/event/an-eve...
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An Evening with "Florida Literary Legend" Craig Pittman - Miami Events Calendar | Books & Books
“A wonderfully entertaining and informative book by a deft and deeply knowledgeable writer. Florida abounds with fascinating stories, and nobody tells them better than Craig Pittman.”—Dave Barry, New ...
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/an-evening-with-florida-literary-legend-craig-pittman/
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I am still awake at 3am Lord 😫
about 1 year ago
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Jasmine 🌌🔭
over 1 year ago
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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over 1 year ago
#FLORIDA
E-BOOK DEAL ALERT: Debut novel by horror master
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
, THE BETWEEN, is only $1.99 for Kindle today.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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The Between: A Novel
Amazon.com: The Between: A Novel eBook : Due, Tananarive: Kindle Store
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My conversation with Barbara Kingsolver via
@penamerica.bsky.social
is up online 🙏🏽
youtu.be/KQaXMSvSoZU?...
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over 1 year ago
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Richard Branson
over 1 year ago
Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas:
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/17/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texas-death-row
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Yours truly in this list of recommended reads for Black History Month! Thank you
@clmporg.bsky.social
and
@blreview.bsky.social
🙏🏽❤️
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over 1 year ago
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A social media platform but strictly for writers/poets/artists and their audience...?
over 1 year ago
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores
over 1 year ago
If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice. —César Chávez
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Trying to conduct a Zoom call with a needy dachshund
over 1 year ago
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I am flooded with ideas for short stories this week. I write them down like a good little writer I am. And then I go through life praying for time (and money) to sit and write them.
over 1 year ago
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Jerry Chen
over 1 year ago
fun fact: my family and i do this pretty much every night since
@852dude.bsky.social
taught me about the buffalo part
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Jerry Chen
over 1 year ago
do any americans go overseas, ride a bullet train, and think: nah, we don't need this?
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Craig Pittman
over 1 year ago
There ain't nothin' like Sam Cooke, who was born on this date in Mississippi in 1931. He used his gritty voice and magnetic stage presence to become a star in gospel and then invent soul music. Man, he had a lot of fun!
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Sam Cooke Live Twistin' the Night Away 1963
YouTube video by supercanadian4
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Someone said "Reciprocal relationships only this year" and I wholeheartedly approve this message. Show up for those who show up for you.
over 1 year ago
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Michael Lobel
over 1 year ago
Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King Jr.—Mountain Top, color screenprint, 1968
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Craig Pittman
over 1 year ago
Sunday afternoons are a GREAT time to catch up on the "Welcome to
#Florida
!" podcast. In recent episodes we've explored Criteria Studios, Mr. Rogers at Rollins College, FL poets & the St. Johns RIver. Dive in!
www.buzzsprout.com/1169570
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Welcome to Florida
Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state's history, people, politics, environ...
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1169570
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Black Lawrence Press
over 1 year ago
In keeping with our commitment to being a clear and consistent home for immigrant writing, we are proud to announce The Black Lawrence Fellowship for New Immigrant Authors:
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Hey hey, I am excited for this. I am chatting with Barbara Kingsolver in a free virtual event hosted by
@penamerica.bsky.social
Get tickets:
pen.org/event/kingdo...
Hope you can join!
over 1 year ago
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Shaundai Person
over 1 year ago
reminder to self: rest IS productive
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